The emergence of new technologies, particularly information- and communication-technologies, had boosted prospects for economic growth, sustainable development and poverty eradication, but the digital divide continued to gape, although narrowing in some instances, and was even widening between developed and low-income countries.
La aparición de técnicas nuevas, en particular de la telemática, ha abierto nuevas perspectivas de crecimiento económico, desarrollo duradero y eliminación de la pobreza.